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Metro-North Becomes Inquiry Magnet After Held Up as Rail Model

Two years after being singled out for international honors, Metro-North Railroad finds itself facing a wave of retirements, under three federal safety investigations, and explaining to officials and riders why a locomotive engineer drove a speeding train into a deadly …

Metro Settles Lawsuit Resulting From 2009 Crash in Washington D.C.

Metro has agreed to settle a lawsuit against its insurance broker that stemmed from the 2009 red line crash in Washington, D.C. that killed nine people. After the crash, Metro sued insurance broker Aon, which put together the insurance that …

Feds Begin Probe of San Francisco Bay Area Rail Worker Deaths

A federal investigator says the out-of-service commuter train that struck and killed two San Francisco Bay area transit workers did not have a front-facing video recorder that would help reconstruct the moments leading up to the accident. But National Transportation …

Connecticut Senator Urges Installation of Railroad Safety Device

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling on Metro-North Railroad to quickly install technology to prevent more fatalities. The Connecticut Democrat headed a hearing before a congressional committee on Wednesday to examine the state of safety on the nation’s passenger and freight …